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Originally Posted by FeelingOpaque
With all due disrespect intended, if my 'doctor' believes the first option to treatment must be mind altering sunstances that have unkown.long term effects - he is an idiot and not.interested in helping me, I need coping skills, not drugs.
Why is this concept so difficult? Have we as a community not seen the disastorous effects of the over prescribing of these drugs?
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I couldn't agree more.
To me, in most instances, taking medication for mental health is like giving somebody with a brain tumor an aspirin and expecting it to "fix" them.
Even if one does have a mood disorder such as bipolar, that doesn't always mean that one needs medication to treat it. If anything, there have been plenty of instances of people with bipolar treating it via other means such as healthy diet and exercise, meditation, and other holistic means that are too extensive for be to get into on this post (Google is your friend here!). Yes, it is harder to treat your mood disorder this way but I would argue that it is more effective than taking medication and thus, becoming dependent on a mental health system that cares more about money than one's health.
Now no way am I saying that one should forego taking medication if they actually need it to function at all but I firmly believe that medication should be used as a last resort when all other options have been proven ineffective.